Bach Perspectives, Volume 6: J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music, The Ouverture (Bach Perspectives)

The sixth volume in the __Bach Perspectives__ series opens with Joshua Rifkin's seminal study of the early source history of the B-minor orchestral suite. Rifkin elaborates on his discovery that the work in its present form for solo flute goes back to an earlier version in A minor, ostensibly for solo violin. He also takes the discovery as the point of departure for a wide-ranging discussion of the origins and extent of Bach's output in the area of concerted ensemble music. In other essays, Jeanne Swack presents an enlightening comparison of Georg Phillip Telemann's and Bach's approach to the French overture as concerted movements in their church cantatas. Steven Zohn views the B-minor orchestral suite from the standpoint of the "concert en ouverture." In addition, Zohn responds to Rifkin by suggesting Bach may have scored the early version of the B-minor orchestral suite for flute. | Cover Title page Copyright Contents Preface Editor's Preface Abbreviations The "B-Minor Flute Suite" Deconstructed: New Light on Bach's Ouverture BWV 1067 by Joshua Rifkin A Comparison of Bach's and Telemann's Use of the Ouverture as Theological Signifier by Jeanne Swack Bach and the Concert en ouverture by Steven Zohn Contributors General Index Index of Bach's Compositions| "Anyone concerned with Bach or Telemann scholarship, or even merely with German late-Baroque music, will profit from this book."—__Music and Letters__ "Joshua Rifkin, whose essay on __Bach's Ouverture, BWV 1067__ forms the major part of this volume, is one of the most virtuosic scholars in the positivist musicology."—__Early Music History__ | **Gregory Butler** is a professor emeritus of musicology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of __Bach's Clavier-Übung III: The Making of a Print__. The sixth volume in the Bach Perspectives series opens with Joshua Rifkin's seminal study of the early source history of the B-minor orchestral suite. Rifkin elaborates on his discovery that the work in its present form for solo flute goes back to an earlier version in A minor, ostensibly for solo violin. He also takes the discovery as the point of departure for a wide-ranging discussion of the origins and extent of Bach's output in the area of concerted ensemble music. In other essays, Jeanne Swack presents an enlightening comparison of Georg Phillip Telemann's and Bach's approach to the French overture as concerted movements in their church cantatas. Steven Zohn views the B-minor orchestral suite from the standpoint of the "concert en ouverture." In addition, Zohn responds to Rifkin by suggesting Bach may have scored the early version of the B-minor orchestral suite for flute. | Cover Title page Copyright Contents Preface Editor's Preface Abbreviations The "B-Minor Flute Suite" Deconstructed: New Light on Bach's Ouverture BWV 1067 by Joshua Rifkin A Comparison of Bach's and Telemann's Use of the Ouverture as Theological Signifier by Jeanne Swack Bach and the Concert en ouverture by Steven Zohn Contributors General Index Index of Bach's Compositions | "Anyone concerned with Bach or Telemann scholarship, or even merely with German late-Baroque music, will profit from this book."— Music and Letters "Joshua Rifkin, whose essay on Bach's Ouverture, BWV 1067 forms the major part of this volume, is one of the most virtuosic scholars in the positivist musicology."— Early Music History | Gregory Butler is a professor emeritus of musicology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Bach's Clavier-Übung III: The Making of a Print . As the official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives has pioneered new areas of research in the life, times, and music of Bach since its first appearance in 1995. In a series long known for its major essays by leading Bach scholars and performers, Bach Perspectives, Volume 6 is no exception. This volume opens with Joshua Rifkin's seminal study of the early source history of the B-minor orchestral suite. It not only elaborates on Rifkin's discovery that the work in its present form for solo flute goes back to an earlier version in A minor, ostensibly for solo violin, but also takes this discovery as the point of departure for a wide-ranging discussion of the origins and extent of Bach's output in the area of concerted ensemble music. Jeanne Swack presents an enlightening comparison of Georg Phillip Telemann's and Bach's approach to the French overture as concerted movements in their church cantatas, and Steven Zohn views the B-minor orchestral suite from the standpoint of the "concert en ouverture," responding to Rifkin by suggesting that the early version of the B-minor orchestral suite may also have been scored for flute [Publisher description] Examines a dimension of J S Bach's music: the crucial influence it has exerted upon the musical works of many other composers. This title features a series of articles by musicologists, compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Hindemith, and others are considered in light of the ways in which they bear Bach's unmistakable imprint. by Joshua Rifkin by Joshua Rifkin -- by Jeanne Swack by Joshua Rifkin-- by Jeanne Swack-- by Steven Zohn.